Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Lawrence Island, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Lawrence Island
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Netting shuttles
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Acc. to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use amg their relatives of the islands of Bering strt
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14.2 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: Cf. 2-6637. INUA: Sprit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. References: cf. Nelson p. 192 and pl. LXXIII#11-13. INUA p. 232, pl. 278.